Jammu Attack NIA team detains Kashmiri girl for questioning, visit Supwal border
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has detained a Kashmiri girl for questioning, who is believed to be very close aide of absconding Over Ground Worker and allegedly involved in Jammu terror attack.
On April 22 early morning, two heavily-armed terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfit were eliminated in a fierce gunfight by security forces after they attacked a bus carrying Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel in the Sunjwan area on the outskirts of Jammu. In the attack, an Assistant Sub-Inspector of the CISF has lost his life in the attack. Nine security personnel, including two policemen, were also injured in the gunfight.
“The suspected girl (name withheld), is the girlfriend of Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh resident of Mir Mohalla, Tral, who had facilitated the stay of terrorists in the Jalalabad area of Jammu,” official sources told The News Now.
The SIM cards used in terrorist activities were provided by Shafiq after he took them from her. Official sources said that the girl took the same SIM cards from his earlier boyfriend who is a resident of Surankote.
Meanwhile, the NIA team led by SSP NIA Rajiv Pandey and SOG sleuths Friday visited the Supwal border, from where the terrorists were transported towards Jammu.
Pertinently, Jammu and Kashmir Police last Saturday evening attested two involved in the Sunjwan Encounter case.
They were arrested from the Kokernag area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Those arrested by police were identified as Bilal Waghey and Ishfaq Chaupan, the duo are drivers and conductors of vehicles that ferried Jaish Fidayeen terrorists from Supwala in Samba to Sunjwan in Jammu, a day before they attack CISF Bus in the same area.
ADG Jammu Mukesh Singh had said that on 22nd April 2022, two terrorists which were associated with suicide squad of Jaish-e-Mohammad got eliminated. He had said that they had infiltrated recently and were directed by their Pakistan handlers to carry out Fidayeen attack in Jammu City.
“During the course of investigation of case FIR No. 115 u/s 302/307/120-B, 121-A IPC, 7/27 Arms Act & 16/18/20 ULA of P/S Bahu Fort Jammu, J&K Police on the basis of technical analysis, succeeded in effecting the arrest of a person namely Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh S/o Ghulam Mohd Sheikh R/o Mir Mohalla, Tral, who had facilitated the stay of terrorists in Jalalabad area of Jammu,” ADG Singh had added.
He further said that on disclosure of the Shafiq, one person namely Mohd Iqbal Rather from Kulgam in whose residence at Jalalabad, the terrorists had hidden also stands detained. The analysis of the mobile tower, as well as the internet data usage of the general area, led to suspicion of a person by name of Bilal Ahmed Beig of Anantnag, who had received the terrorists on the border and brought them to the Jalalabad area, which was further received by Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh.
ADG Singh also said, “Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh further revealed that his brother Asif Ahmed Shiekh helped in finding a place for accommodation of terrorists as well as provided mobile phones to the terrorists. The technical analysis of the CCTVs in Jalalabad area, as well as Highway, corroborates the above-mentioned facts”.
